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Dark Bird

from Verbal Tan by John Ralston

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Written for the people of Nice, France.

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Chorus Lyrics:
If I could be there for you 
With or without words
Just someone to be by your side

Rest of lyrics:
Dark was the bird in the air tonight
Close overhead
Feathers bristling song in flight
If I could be there for you 
With or without words
Just someone to be by your side
What kind of world…am I dreaming in real time?
Nightmarish wrongs, so debased and void of life.
If I could be there for you 
With or without words
Just someone to be by your side
It's a short-sighted blade where the gravest games are played
And the "why"'s in the shade in a maze of the human heart
We looked on and we prayed / Our appeals to gods were made
And those echoes replayed - the irony played on and on.

If I could be there for you 
With or without words
Just someone to be by your side

Talking heads prey on a feast of what's gone wrong
But their broken, off-key song, it just doesn't interest me
Cause there's real people out there meeting the cries for help they hear
And they'll be tuning out the fear
Real people like you and me
Real people like you and me

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from Verbal Tan, released February 3, 2017
Chris Wood: Bass/Electric Gtr
Elliot Shaw: Vocals
Eleonore Shaw: Vocals
Jesse Dalton: Drums
Andrew McAusland: Slide Gtrs/Lead

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